Assume the following: Ecommerce site with individual pages for each product the store carries. Our SEO decided to use the canonical tag on our product pages. Let's say the URL for a product is: His ...

A WebmasterWorld thread has one example of such use. For example, you have a category landing page with ten results per page, and let's say five pages for pagination. So you have a total of 50 ...

Technical SEO can feel overwhelming due to the many terms involved. This is especially true for today’s topic, rel canonical. In this video, I’ll explain how and when to use a canonical tag and ...

The canonical tag (rel=”canonical”) is an essential tool in the search engine optimization (SEO) toolbox. It is often a better solution that a 301 redirect in cleaning up duplicate content issues. So ...

The web is full of duplicate content. Search engines try to index and display the original or “canonical” version. Searchers only want to see one version in results. And site owners worry that if ...

An interesting Google Webmaster Help thread discusses the old and new way of handling duplicate content. In the old days, you either 301 redirected page A to page B, when there was duplicate content.

Many webmasters will be happy to know that Google has announced its support for using the rel=”canonical” link element across different domains. This is important ...

When previewing/publishing my site with a tag page, the canonical url for the tag pages doesn't match with the actual url. It's adding the POSTS_PREFIX to the ...